New era dawns at Irish Examiner

Property Editor

City Manager Joe Gavin has already identified the site, which stretches three city blocks from Academy Street past Bowling Green Street and Faulkner’s Lane to Dunnes Stores, as prime for redevelopment for shops, headed up by a new department store.

Another adjoining and significant land-owner, motor dealers Johnson and Perrott, is also preparing to move out of Emmet Place to a new site on the South Douglas Road. Taken together, the two businesses vacating the area will help to square off the most pivotal retail site option to come on the market in the city centre in decades. Several property owners on Patrick Street and on Academy Street will become involved in any redevelopment.